All publications post 2001:
Books
- Susannah Radstone, (2007) The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory, London and New York: Routledge, hb 9780415066907; pb
9780415066914, (255 pps).
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- Perri 6, Susannah Radstone, Corinne Squire and Amal Treacher, eds. (2007) Public Emotions, London: Palgrave, 0230007198, (272 pps).
- Caroline Bainbridge, Susannah Radstone, , Michael Rustin and Candida Yates, eds. (2007) Culture and the Unconscious London: Palgrave, 1403986223, (258 pps).
- Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone eds. (2005) (pb) The Politics of Memory: Contested Pasts, Piscatawny, US: Transaction; (hb edition) Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative 2003; (264 pps).
- Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin eds. (2005) (pb) Memory Cultures: Subjectivity, Recogntion and Memory, Piscatawny, US: Transaction; (hb edition) Regimes of Memory, Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, 2003; (224 pps).
- Susannah Radstone (ed.and author) Memory and Methodology, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000. (228 pps.).
- Annette Kuhn and Susannah Radstone, The Women’s Companion To International Film, London: Virago Press and New York: University of California Press, 1990. (464 pps).
- Susannah Radstone (ed) Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1988; (192 pps).
Forthcoming books
- Getting Over Trauma: New Paradigms in Trauma Theory.
Includes chapters as follows:
1: Trauma Theory: Paradigm and Concepts; 2: Trauma Theory: Ethics and Politics;
3: Trauma Theory: Affects and Fantasies; 4: New Paradigms in Trauma Theory: Afterwardsness and Representation; 5: Trauma Films: New approaches to Canonical Texts;
6: Trauma Films: Looking Outside the Canon.
As editor and author
- Mapping Memory.(co-edited with Bill Schwarz) (Fordham University Press).
A comprehensive companion to memory research in the humanities, including sections on histories of memory, how memory works controversies, and beyond memory. Contributors include Keith Ansell Pearson, Howard Caygill, Mary Carruthers, Ghassan Hage, Eva Hoffman, Marianne Hirsch, Thomas Lacqueur, Luisa Passerini, Gerhard Richter, Steven Rose, Richard Terdiman, Jay Winter and Michael Wood.
Refereed Articles
- Invited keynote paper: ‘Memory Studies: For and Against’, Journal of Memory Studies 1/1, January 2008, pps 31-9.
- ‘Trauma theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics’, Paragraph 30:1, 2007, pps 9-29.
- (50%)‘Re-thinking memory: An Introduction’ (with Katharine Hodgkin), in Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (eds) ‘Rethinking Memory’, Special Feature, History Workshop Journal 59, Spring 2005, pps 129-33.
- ‘Reconceiving Binaries: The Limits of Memory’, in ‘Rethinking Memory’, Special Feature, History Workshop Journal 59, Spring 2005 134-150;
- To be reprinted in Lucy Burke and Steven Gartside (eds) The Politics of Cultural Memory, Scholars Press, forthcoming.
- Re-printed in Stephanos Stephanides, (2008) Cultures of Memory/Memories of Culture, University of Nicosia Press.
- ‘Transforming Politics: ‘Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds:’ review article, New Formations, 52, Spring 2004, pps 132-6.
- ‘The war of the fathers: trauma, fantasy and September 11’, Signs vol 28.1. Autumn 2002, 0097 9740 (200223), pp. 457-459.
- Special Debate: Trauma and Screen Studies’ (ed), Screen, vol 42.2 Summer 2001. 0036 9543.
- ‘Trauma and Screen Studies: opening the debate’, Screen, vol 42.2 Summer 2001. 0036 9543, pp.188-193.
- ‘Social Bonds and Psychical Order: Testimonies’, Cultural Values vol 5.1, January 2001, 362 5179 (200101), pp. 59-78; re-printed in Karyn Ball (ed) Traumatizing Theory:The Cultural Politics of Affect in and Beyond Psychoanalysis, NY: The Other Press, 2007.
- ‘Heroes for our times’, Soundings Issue 3, Summer 1996, pp.191-208.
- ‘Cinema/Memory/History: Masculinity remembers itself’, Screen vol 36 no 1, Spring 1995, pp. 34-47.
- ‘Remembering Medea: the uses of nostalgia’, Critical Quarterly 35/3, Autumn, 1993, pp. 54-63.
- ‘Postcard from the edge’, Feminist Review Vol 40, Spring 1992, pp. 85-93; reprinted in
- Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires (eds) Feminisms, Oxford Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 104-108, 1997.
- ‘Psychoanalysis and culture’, review article, Screen Vol 33, Autumn 1991, pp. 329-338.
- 2002 ‘Trauma Dossier’ ( commissioned, compiled, edited and contributor)/ Screen/ vol 42/2/ Intro, pps 188-193/0036 9543
Reviews
- ‘Lives Made, Not Found’, review of Susanna Scarparo, Elusive Subjects: Biography as Metafiction, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 13(4) 2006, pp 384-6.
- Douwe Draaisma, Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older, for Oral History Vol 33, no 2, Autumn 2005 pp. 103-105.
- Review of Vickie Lebeau, Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Screen Vol 37 no 2, Summer 1996, pp. 214-217.
- ‘Woman to women’, review of Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t, Screen Vol 26, nos 3-4, 1985, pp. 111-115.
- ‘Formations of Pleasure’, review of James Donald et al Formations of Pleasure.
- Feminist Review No 18, Winter 1984, pp. 133-136.
Edited books
- 2003/(ed with Katharine Hodgkin)/ Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory/Routledge/264 pps/ 0 415 28647 6
- 2003 Regimes of Memory/ (ed with Katharine Hodgkin) Routledge/224 pps/ 0 415 28648 4
Conference papers/lectures in Britain since 2000
- With Bill Schwarz, ‘In conversation with Alessandro Portelli: memory and history’, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, Manchester University, Manchester. February 2006.
- ‘Beyond Binaries: The Limits of Memory’ invited keynote, Cultural Memory conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2004.
- ‘Racism, Sexism and belongingness: the case of The Crying Game’, Racism, Sexism and Contemporary theories of Belonging Conference, London, August 2004.
- ‘The personal and the public: The limits if memory’ Memory Symposium, School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, UEL, April 2004.
- ‘Debating trauma theory after 9/11’, American Studies Seminar, London University. November 2003.
- ‘Living with the Afterblows: Debating trauma theory’, ‘Smart Bombs, Dumb Wars’ conference, Institute of Education, London University, November 2003.
- ‘Debating trauma in the Humanities’, Economy and Society Matters of Feeling Seminar, Birkbeck College, London University, October 2003.
- ‘The ‘Politics of the Personal: Memory in the Public Sphere’, Memory Colloquium, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Bishopsgate Institute, London, June 2003.
- ‘Public and Personal: Articulating Memory’, Cultural Memory seminar, Institute for Romance Studies, University of London, May 2003.
- ‘Debating trauma studies’, keynote presentation, ‘Trauma, Therapy and Representation’ Conference, Aberdeen University, April 2003
- ‘On Testimony and Confession’, Auto/biography Colloquium, Manchester University. January 2003.
- ‘Debating trauma theories in the Humanties’, invited lecture to Southampton University Film and Humanties Research seminar, March 2002.
- ‘Memory’s Equivocations’, Public Lecture,, MA Cultural Memory, Institute of Romance Studies, London University, February 2002.
- Chair, ‘Holding on and Letting Go’, Cultural Memory Seminar, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London January 2002.
- ‘Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony’, School Research Seminar, School of Cultural and Innovations Studies, UEL, October 2001.
- ‘Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony: Turning the Subject Inside Out’, ‘Texts of Testimony’ Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, August 2001.
- Invited respondent, ‘Locating Memory’ conference, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, May 2001.
- ‘Memory, history and projective identification’, Screen Studies conference, Glasgow/Strathclyde universities, June 2000.
- ‘Psychic bonds and social order’, Humanities research seminar series, University of the West of England. April 2000.
- Panel convenor and presenter, ‘Through the eyes of a child: The Butcher Boy and the Remembrance of a Troubled Past’, Society for Cinema Studies, March 2000.
Conferences and seminar series convened
- London consultant, Society for Cinema Studies (US) for first UK International conference. 2005.
- ‘Culture and the Unconscious’ 1, 2 and 3; (with Caroline Bainbridge, Helen Powell, Mike Rustin and Candida Yates); collaboration between UEL, the Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Psychoanalysis, London 2003; 2004; 2006.
- Colloquium on Memory (with Katharine Hodgkin), Raphael Samuel History Centre, Bishopsgate Institute, London; a colloquium to celebrate the publication of Regimes of Memory and Contested Pasts (edited with Katharine Hodgkin). 2003.
- ‘Frontiers of Memory’ An international, inter-disciplinary conference co-organised with Katherine Hodgkin (Cultural Studies, UEL). 300 proposals received. 100 international speakers selected. Speakers included Marianne Hirsch, Luisa Passerini, Alessandro Portelli, Richard Terdiman. 1999.
- Cultural Memory seminar (Institute of Romance Studies, University of London/Raphael Samuel History Centre: co-organiser with Professor Jo Labanyi. 2002-6.
- ‘Affects, ethics and citizenship’, co-convener with colleagues in Human Relations, University of East London. An inter-institutional, national series. Participants include Simon Critchley, Tony Jefferson, Demos, Suzy Orbach, Judith Williamson, Jeffrey Weeks. 1998-2002.
- ‘Questions of responsibility’, a London-based series including invited presenters from UK universities, the Tavistock Clinic and UEL, 1996-1999.
Invited international lectures and conference presentations
- Keynote speaker at the CRASSH centre, University of Cambridge, ( July 2008 – forthcoming)
Keynote, ‘Trauma and Cinema’ conference, Curtin University, Perth, WA (December 2008 – forthcoming).
- Keynotes at a number of international conferences in Perth, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Utrecht, the Netherlands (2007)
- Invited Masterclass: ‘Culture/Memory/Nation’, University of Melbourne; UTS Sydney, Flinders University Adelaide November-December 2007.
- ‘Memory across times and places: Austerlitz and The Secret River’ keynote address,’Memory in Transdisciplinary Perspectives Conference’, University of Tartu, Estonia, January 2007.
- ‘Psyche, Time and Culture’, University of Otago, NZ, September 2005.
- ‘Psyche, Time and Culture’, University of Auckland, NZ, September 2005.
- ‘Psyche, Time and Culture’, Co-hosted by University of Queensland and Griffith University, Brisbane, July 2005.
- ‘Psyche, Time and Culture’, Dept of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, June 2005.
- ‘Debating Trauma Studies’, for Memory time and the moving image conference, co-hosted by UNSW and UTS and organized to mark my visit to Sydney, June 2005.
- ‘Film and Trauma Theory’, Australian School of Film, TV and Radio, Sydney, June 2005.
- ‘On Memory and Confession’, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, September 2005.
- Master Class on Thinking and Working in the Fields of History and Memory, CCS, ANU, September 2005,
- ‘Film, trauma, memory’, Dept of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, April 2005.
- ‘Afterthoughts on the limits of memory’, Australian Studies Centre, University of Melbourne, March 2005.
- ‘Literature is not Memory’ Cultures of Memory/Memories of Culture Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia., February 2004.
- ‘Psyche, Time, Culture: Revising Psychoanalytic Film Theory’ Feminism and Film Symposium, Humanities Research Institute, New York State University, Stony Brook. October 2003.
- ‘Holding On and Letting Go: Memory and Narrative’, Film, Theatre and Music Dept, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. October 2003.
- ‘The Place of “Place” in theories of memory’ Memory and Narrative Symposium, Peter Wall Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 2003.
- ‘Psyche, Time, Culture’, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2003.
- ‘The place of ‘place’ in Memory Studies’, Places and Spaces: Memory, Culture and Identity Conference, British Council, Delphi. September 2003.
- ‘Remembering deeds done: responsibility, memory and the contemporary history film’, Society for Cinema Studies conference, Ottawa, (British Academy Travel Award), May 1997.
- ‘Forrest Gump: History, hysteria and hope’, Society for Cinema Studies conference, Dallas USA. (British Academy Travel Award). March 1996.
- ‘The nostalgic gaze, or looking homewards’, Society for Cinema Studies conference, New Orleans. (British Academy travel award). February 1993.
- ‘On nostalgia’, Women’s Education Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin and University College Cork. (Funded by Irish Women’s Studies Depts). November 1992.
Editorships/panel committee memberships
- Editor, volume series, Memory and Narrative, Transaction Books, Rutgers University.
- UK Consultant, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (US).
Research Grants
- 2000 /AHRB/Research leave scheme/ £12664
- 1992 / Keele University competitive sabbatical award/£12000
- 1992 / British Academy Travel Award for paper to Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans/£350
- 1996 / British Academy Travel Award for paper to Society for Cinema Studies, Dallas/£300
Key publications pre 2001:
- 2000 / (ed)/ Memory and Methodology/ Berg
- 2000 /‘Autobiographical Times’/ in Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury and Penny Summerfield (eds), Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories and Methods/ Routledge.
- 1996 /‘Heroes for our times’/ Soundings
- 1995 /‘Too straight a drive to the toll-booth: Masculinity, mortality and Al Pacino’/ in Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim (eds), Me Jane: Masculinity and Movies/ Lawrence and Wishart
- 1988/(ed)/Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction, Lawrence and Wishart
Translations
- ‘Confessare e ricordare. Due modalita di autorappresentazione femminile’ (trans Paula Bono), Paula Bono (ed) Questioni di Teoria Femminista, Milan: La Tartaruga edizioni, 1993, pps 147-155.
Reprints
- ‘Postcard from the edge’, Feminist Review vol 40, Spring 1992, pps 85-93.
- Re-printed in: Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires (eds) Feminisms, Oxford Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pps 104-108.
